The Lord of great compassion said: ?Let it be so.? Then he and the damsel-pair, as gracious mortalsTook birth in the South and lived in connubial joy. They have now hither returned.? To his holy audience Upamanyu fully narrated their lives.

he saints of loving kindness, Who were listening to him said: ?All the eight directions are realms where soulsGet embodied befitting their karma; what especial pietyHas indeed been wrought by the SouthTo merit in its realm, his incarnation??

The great tapaswi then replied thus: ?Perumpatra-p-Puliyur is here situate, adored byMy father Vyagrapada, the great saint of peerless tapas; It flourishes as the treasure of thoseWho adore the Lord with single-minded devotion.

?In that holy realm, the eternal Lord dances willinglyIn the great Ambalam, for ever, in the presenceOf our Mother, the divine liana of true tapas. Which other direction can rival the South in its glory?

?It is here in the South, our Lord ? Guru Nandi --,Performed tapas, and came by ever-growing grace eternal; The lord who sports the flood in His matted hairAnd wields the fire in His hand, Abides here in Aiyaru.

Thus spake the Saint, of the glorious historyOf Van-tandar; in unison with explicationAnd in accordance with the Tiru-th-tonda-th-TokaiWhich historicises the gloried lives of the devoteesWe now elaborately indite this work in love.

The truly divine decad of Van-tondar?s Tiru-th-tonda-th-TokaiWrought with the grace of the Ancient OneEnshrined in the Ant-Hill, Is the base and source of this work; We humbly hail it and commence our work.

For the world to flourish and SaivismTo soar aloft and thrive, Nambi-AroorarOf infinite glory hymned the holy companyOf devotees, and we now proceed to hailTheir great country, watered by the cool Kauveri.